As the world prepares for Cop30, it is time for a reckoning on how climate finance is deployed. Photograph: Dominika Zarzycka/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
Women feed much of the world – producing as much as 80 per cent of food in developing countries. They make up well over half the agricultural workforce in Africa and about half in Asia. Yet their labour remains one of the most undervalued and underfunded assets in the global economy.
These women farmers, who sustain local food systems, tend to cultivate small plots of land that yield on average 24 per cent less than those farmed by men. This is not a reflection of skill or effort but of structural inequality. Women have far less access to land rights, credit, technology, extension services and markets.
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